You will learn.
You will be pushed when you need it.
You will likely get out of your normal way of doing things and find new ways that you might like better.
You have accountability.
You are required to literally show up.
You invested yourself financially, and therefore you are more likely to follow through with the plan.
You save time you would spend yourself on planning your training and nutrition (depending on the coach).
You don’t have to think. You just show up and perform what your coach asks.
Your coach most likely knows a lot more than you.
Online coaches can do a good amount more for you than in person CPTs.
You have to pay for it.
Your coach won’t know right away what plan is best for you and your body.
You might get a “bad” coach.
You might pay money but it doesn’t guarantee results.
You won’t get instant results. Expect to have a coach for a long time—I’d say plan for a year at minimum.
You might not get a coach that teaches you. They might just tell you what to do without explaining why.
In-gym personal trainers cost way too much money, and most of that money doesn’t even go to the trainer.
In-gym CPTs are supervised and make sure that you continually keep paying for programs.
On the flip side, online coaches oftentimes keep trying to make you come back to them for everything. They try to make you dependent on them by saying things like “everyone needs a coach.” That’s false. Not everyone needs a coach.
Coaches not “graduating” their clients to the real world.